Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-14

CGIet Engineer RSmSdGll start On THEN
trip over the lire Of the road to Piano to-
day. Several depOts viii be located.
- ExlZSs ES[95
Captain West, OF Jac6sboro, is in the
city, and is . most enthusiastic Fort
/ Worth and Western man. He saws
f "thIngs ere working" and SO they ere.
II ever 3 man worked faithfully for his
home city that man is Captain Tom West,
and his work has counted. Jacksboro
viii reward him.
Railroad building to ard from For.
Worth is the order of the day and tle
City Council, by prompt action, car
make the same rule apply il Fort
Worth, Companies have asked ST their
hands frar chises 10 construct electric
or dummy Hucs TO West Fort Worth
and North Fort Worth. Let no delay in
granting these franchises occur Let the
council &C. promptly and work VIII be
g.n on several grsat street car systems.
Fort Worth wants railroads both inside
ard outside. Street railways develop the
Wsste places CT the city and build IN
property values in The corporation Is
other railroads build az the country. On
with inc street railways
In Fort Worth Western circles there
is unusual activity, there Is business in
every word said about il. To-day 5 New
York representative CT the company viii
be N Fort Worth. TIE GAZETTE makes
no prediction; THE GAZETTE states
2 fact w1en it tells the people of Fort
Worth, SpIingtOwn, JaCkSbOrO, Graham,
Seymour, Albany and Tlr0ckmorton that
the Fort Worth Western VIII be built and
built faster than sny road has ever before
been constructed il Texas, and THE GA
zETTE has never said this before, There
is money, there is railroad sense, there
Is energy back Of the Fort Worth West
e-H5 and there is q magnificent country
waiting for the road to penetrate it. The
Fort Worth Western will surely be built.
Major 3. s. Watheu, chief engineer OF
the EiissCru Pacific, and General RICH!
Of Way Agent Captain Volney Hall were
as busy as bees yesterday OF railroad
work. In company with Peter Smith. ".
3. Huffman aDd IL bert Mozart they were
driven over the country from the Mis-
souri, PaCihC northeast and took certain |
notes OF the country. The gentlemen
were called away last night on g lele- |
grsm, but Will return on Friday The
extension of the East Line from McKin- /
neg and running OF through trains from /
Jefferson through Greeuville Gnd MCKin- .
ney to Fort Worth, which the Missouri /
Pacific seems determined 10 do, would |
be splendid thing for the road, ana /.
Fort Worth is willing. The Missouri |
Pacific mas other projects on foot which !
are not yet ready for the public. Crest /
is the Missouri Pacific.
Contractor Hughes is il the City from
Granbury, and has forty teams ready to |
begin work at SCullyville in building the +
three miles Of the Fort Worth and Rio |
GranGe to their depot grounds en- the /
land purchased from the Texas and Pa I
cifc out Of the reservation. Some fer |
the tUTntGble and rOundhOuse Of tie rosa /
is now being unIOGded at the foot of .
Adams street, and work on these besides f.
on the depot Will begin ct once. Tie
company has thrown is line some dis
lance to the west and has secured nearly
ell the right Of way. TIE work Of .
these three miles is to
be completed by the time the
bridge is built over the Brazos and then
through train service viii al once be in
lugurated. !. is hoped the Council to-
lay will pass the ordinance asked By the
company, and let the conductors voice
soon be calling CUT, Gan aboard for |
Iranbury." The depot viii he built west
u the foot OF jennings avenue,